This dwarf shrub has solitary or multiple greyish trunks with spreading nodding branches that form a bushy habit. It has blue-grey green needle-like branchlets with scale leaves and the male and female flowers appear in a spike from winter to spring.

Hardiness zones 9  to 10

Allocasuarina humilis is naturally found in south-west Western Australia appearing over a large region from Geraldton in the north to Perth, Albany and extending to Esperance in the south. It grows on a variety of habitats include mallee, Jarrah forest, Esperance plains and the Geraldton sandplains.

It prefers an open to expose sunny position and grows in well-drained, poor sandy gravelly  to clay loam that is tending acidic with a pH range of 5.5 to 8.5. It is drought and frost tolerant and regenerates from seed after fire.

The Dwarf Sheoak is grown for its attractive bluish-green foliage and its small bushy habit. It is plant along the garden borders as a low screen for use as a specimen in a native garden. It is also used in coastal settings and a windbreak or is planted on embankments for erosion control. It is suitable for coastal and inland regions and establishes in 3-4 years and is moderately long-lived. This versatile shrub adapts readily to cultivation tolerating most soils and positions and is use for foliage contrast. ID 3808

Allocasuarina (al-low-kazh-yoo-ar-EYE-nuh) humilis (HEW-mil-is)

Casuarinaceae (KAS-ew-rin-AY-see-ee)